funbook-pk Chapter 791 The Palace Maid's Revenge 23
Chapter 791 The Palace Maid's Revenge 23
"Your Majesty," the queen then looked at the emperor sadly again, "I am really wronged! Please investigate this matter thoroughly and clear my name."
"The Queen Mother has arrived." Just then, the eunuch's report came from outside, and then the Queen Mother hurried in.
"Greetings, Her Majesty the Empress Dowager." Everyone present, except the Emperor, hurriedly saluted the Empress Dowager.
The emperor walked over to the empress dowager and helped her sit down on the chair. "Mother, why are you here? Look how anxious I am. There is sweat on my forehead."
"This is such a big thing that happened to Concubine Chen. How can I not be anxious?" the Queen Mother said. "What happened to Concubine Chen? She fainted and was bleeding. What on earth is wrong with her body?"
The doctor quickly repeated what he had just said to the Queen Mother. After hearing what the doctor said, the Queen Mother immediately looked at the Queen angrily: "Queen, you are really fine! It seems that you didn't take my warning seriously at all!"
"Mother, I am innocent!" the Queen cried, "I really did not harm the Concubine Chen. Even if I really wanted to harm her, I would not have drugged her in my own palace. I beg you and the Emperor to thoroughly investigate this matter and clear my name."
"Ha!" The Queen Mother sneered, "If Concubine Chen is not pregnant, then she has been drugged by you without knowing it. You dared to drug Concubine Chen in your own palace, so you were sure that Concubine Chen would not be detected after taking the drug. But you never expected that Concubine Chen would be pregnant, which exposed you by mistake."
"Someone, come! Take the queen back and put her under house arrest, and send all the servants in the queen's palace to the Ministry of Punishment for severe torture. I don't believe how hard those dogs can keep their mouths shut."
"You don't need your majesty to have someone escort me back," the queen stood up. "I will go back by myself. I will not leave Kunde Palace until the matter is investigated. I only hope that your majesty and the emperor can give me justice after the matter is investigated."
"Haha!" The queen laughed at herself, "I am the queen! But now I am being imprisoned without any evidence because a concubine was drugged. I am such a failure as a queen, so pathetic!"
As soon as she finished speaking, the queen turned and walked out.
The Queen Mother looked coldly at the Queen's back as she left, and did not feel any emotion because of the Queen's words.
"Concubine Wang, please go back first!" The Queen Mother looked at Concubine Wang and said:
Although Concubine Wang was very worried about Concubine Chen's situation, since the Queen Mother had said so, Concubine Wang could only bow and leave.
After Concubine Wang left, the Queen Mother asked everyone to leave, then looked at the Emperor and said, "Your Majesty, it seems that the Queen should be deposed. The Queen dared to drug Chunxi this time, so she might dare to drug you next time. Therefore, the Queen must be deposed, and a vicious woman like her must not be allowed to sit on the throne again."
"After the matter is thoroughly investigated and it is confirmed that it was the Queen who drugged Chunxi, I will naturally depose her," the Emperor said, "but Chunxi..."
The emperor felt extremely sad when he thought of the suffering Chunxi had suffered today. If he had known this earlier, he should have protected Chunxi more thoroughly.
"Alas!" The Queen Mother sighed sadly, "If you can't have children, then you can't have children! As long as the person can live well, it's a blessing. At worst, Chunxi can just adopt someone else's child in the future."
As soon as she finished speaking, the Queen Mother stood up and walked into the hall, anxious to go in and see Chunxi.
When the Queen returned, all the servants in her palace had been sent to the Ministry of Punishment.
After all, the emperor wanted to thoroughly investigate something, so naturally the people under him acted quickly.
"boom!"
When the queen heard the sound of the palace door closing, her heart trembled violently. She then turned her head to look at the tightly closed palace door, and a look of fear finally appeared on her face.
But soon the queen pretended to be calm again: "It will be fine, it will definitely be fine, Nanny Tian and the others will never betray me."
"Haha!" The queen laughed sadly, wiping her tears from her face with her palm facing upwards: "My life as a queen is so pathetic! That bitch, Concubine Chen, is so lucky. She has the Queen Mother and the Emperor protecting and pampering her. This makes me, the queen, look like a joke."
"But so what?" The Queen laughed coldly, "Even with the Emperor and the Queen Mother protecting her, the bitch Concubine Chen still had her body ruined by me."
"Just wait for me. Today's incident is just the beginning. One day, I will completely destroy that bitch, Concubine Chen. Whether it's her favor or her life, I will destroy them all. Let her taste the regret of provoking me."
That night, except for Nanny Tian, all of the Queen's confidants confessed their crimes.
They didn't want to confess. After all, the lives of their families were controlled by the queen's family. Even for the safety of their families, they would not give up the queen and confess everything.
But isn’t this Jiang Chunxi’s man in the Ministry of Punishment?
After purchasing a few pills from the system mall, these people confessed everything.
As for why Nanny Tian did not confess, it was naturally because she did not use any medicine. After all, the queen had to have a loyal servant left for her, so that there would be no doubt about the matter.
Otherwise, if all the servants spoke with one voice, it would seem a bit deliberate.
It was right not to give Nanny Tian the medicine. When Nanny Tian saw that those people had confessed, she cursed them, saying that they dared to betray the Queen and that they and their families would all die a miserable death.
Now, there is no way to prove the Queen’s guilt.
After being scolded by Nanny Tian, those servants simply confessed everything the queen had done. For example, this was not the first time the queen had harmed people. The queen had previously assaulted pregnant concubines, causing the emperor to lose two heirs.
During the morning court session the next day, the emperor announced the evil deeds committed by the queen, showed the evidence to the ministers in the court, and then directly announced the dethronement of the queen.
The queen's father was directly dismissed from office. Faced with such a situation, the queen's father just shed tears, knelt down to thank the emperor for his grace, and did not make any excuses for himself.
What's there to defend?
There was all the evidence and witnesses of what his daughter had done, so how could he defend himself? The emperor only dismissed him from his official position, which was already a mercy. If he dared to defend himself further, it would probably not be as simple as dismissal.
Although the emperor showed mercy to the queen's family, he was not so kind to the servants in the queen's palace and the imperial physician Zhu.
All the servants in the Queen's palace were beaten to death, and the entire family of Doctor Zhu was executed. As an imperial physician, he actually dared to help the Queen persecute the concubines. The Emperor did not kill all nine clans of Doctor Zhu, which was already considered magnanimous.